Ericd's Blog about anything infrastructure related

Q&A: Microsoft Windows Vista Released to Manufacturing:

2006-11-08T20:22:00.000+01:00

It is there.....

Vista is RTM let's download the product and get using it...

Link to Q&A: Microsoft Windows Vista Released to Manufacturing: As Windows Vista hits the Release to Manufacturing milestone, Microsoft looks back at what it took to build the most heavily tested, highest quality and most secure operating system in the company’s history.

Webcasts Unified Communication

2006-10-17T15:37:00.001+02:00

Even more to come:

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Unified Communications Overview (Level 100)
Friday, November 03, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Joe Schurman, Trainer, Connected Innovation LLC
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313385&Culture=en-US

Microsoft Webcast: Improving Quality of Government Services with Microsoft Unified Communications Solutions (Level 100)
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Joel Cherkis, Director of Collaborative Technology, Microsoft Corporation
Mark Stencel, Technology Columnist, Governing Magazine
Cathy Cleek, Chief Information Officer, California Franchise Tax Board
Albert Alvarez, Operating Systems, Miami-Dade County ETSD
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032311911&Culture=en-US

More webcasts

2006-10-17T15:37:00.000+02:00

For Sytem Center:

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 10 of 10): Looking ahead to System Center (Level 200)
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032306334&Culture=en-US

and for Sharepoint:

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Keith Combs, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032312690&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint (Level 100)
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
Peter Eicher, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032312732&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Build Great Looking Sites Using Web Content Management Features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
Friday, November 10, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Bob German, Technology Architect, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032311865&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Security from Service Accounts to Item-Level Access (Level 200)
Monday, November 27, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Shawn Travers, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313269&Culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Developers and Designers (Level 200)
Friday, November 17, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Andrew Connell, Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Mindsharp
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032307699&Culture=en-US

Exchange webcasts

2006-10-17T15:36:00.000+02:00

For those interested, the upcoming webcasts about exchange:

TechNet Webcast: High Availability and Clustering in Exchange Server 2007 (Level 300)
Monday, November 06, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Michael Murphy, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313387&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Designs Its 64-bit Exchange Server 2007 Infrastructure (Level 300)
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Konstantin Ryvkin, Group Manager, Microsoft IT, Microsoft Corporation
Kyryl Perederiy, Senior Systems Engineer, Microsoft IT, Microsoft Corporation
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73648

TechNet Webcast: Introduction to the New Exchange Server 2007 Administrator Interface (Level 200)
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Keith Combs, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313099&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Transport and Routing Architecture (Level 200)
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Keith Combs, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313102&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Introduction to Windows PowerShell Scripting in Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)
Friday, November 17, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313106&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Giving Administrators More Control in Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)
Monday, November 20, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Keith Combs, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313104&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Improvements to Calendaring in Exchange 2007 (Level 200)
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313109&Culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: A Sneak Peek at Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 (Level 100
Monday, November 27, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Stephanie Doakes, Technology Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313607&Culture=en-US

Microsoft Webcast: Planning and Deploying a Secure Messaging Solution with Exchange Server 2007 (Level 100)
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Sandy Sharma, Senior Executive, Advaiya, Inc
Aaron Duggal, Principal Subject Matter Expert, Advaiya, Inc
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032312816&Culture=en-US

Microsoft Webcast: Optimizing your Infrastructure with Windows Vista, Exchange Server 2007, and the 2007 Office System (Level 100)
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Sandy Sharma, Senior Executive, Advaiya, Inc
Aaron Duggal, Principal Subject Matter Expert, Advaiya, Inc
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032312813&Culture=en-US

My First post with Live Writer

2006-09-01T12:03:00.000+02:00

The new Windows Live Writer is a new tool from Microsoft that enables you to blog easily to different blogs, where you also see your blogpost in the style of your blog, so if you add a picture you see how it looks at first glance (combined with background for instance.)

I tried creating links that open new browsers so people can keep reading my posts, while in the background the link opens, but for some reason the checkmark: open link in new window does not work (yet)

My First post with Live Writer

2006-09-01T11:55:00.000+02:00

RSS Bandit works

2006-07-28T11:27:00.000+02:00

I finally have my RSS Bandit working: it took me a while to think of the solution. I had the problem that the menu’s provided several objects, the vista glass interface could not take care of.

Click here to see the image

This always resulted in a hang of my reader. All of a sudden it dawned on me. (should have thought of this before…) disable Glass configure the reader and enable glass again. And indeed this did the trick, I can use the shortcut keys in the menu’s , to accomplish things, but not the menu’s without hanging up my app. If I want to reconfigure, I have to disable glass again, but how often do you reconfigure…

Vista Build 5472

2006-07-18T07:55:00.000+02:00

It has arrived, people announced it last week but finally it is here, I am Downloading it now and will try to install tomorrow. I have to teach today, so no time, the story of my life. As soon as something new arrives, I have to teach.

Well, this time it is only just one day dely.

Update on updating Vista ;-)

2006-06-27T08:54:00.000+02:00

It will not make it at 9.00AM, but it gives me a promising: completing upgrade. So in my first breaki expect the machine to be up and running with Vista Build 5456.

At that moment testing starts at new.

Upgrading My Vista

2006-06-27T08:04:00.000+02:00

At this very moment I am upgrading my desktop PC to Vista Build 5456. It arrived the day before yesterday, yesterday I did not have enough time to try the upgrade, this morning I was early at work so I decided to give it a go.

I also tried to “upgrade” from Business edition to ultimate edition. So let’s see if that works either, (I realize that if the upgrade does not work, I do not know which is the reason for failure…)

I was too curious though so no worries as they say down under, just try . at this moment My screen tells me he is at 99% of the gathering of files (the problem is, it said so for the last 5 minutes… but there is still visible activity, so I am not interfering yet.)

I’ll keep you posted on both my blogs whether it will work or not.

My Blog from XP

2006-06-20T15:26:00.000+02:00

This post is posted from my laptop.